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The audit planning process directly affects the quality of the outcome. A proper plan ensures that resources are focused on the right areas and that potential problems are identified early. A successful audit first outlines the objectives of the audit, the procedures that will be followed, and the required resources.

Choose an organization you are familiar with and develop an eight page IT infrastructure audit for compliance in which you:

Define the following items for an organization you are familiar with:

Scope

Goals and objectives

Frequency of the audit

Duration of the audit

Identify the critical requirements of the audit for your chosen organization and explain why you consider them to be critical requirements.

Choose privacy laws that apply to the organization, and suggest who is responsible for privacy within the organization.

Develop a plan for assessing IT security for your chosen organization by conducting the following:

Risk management

Threat analysis

Vulnerability analysis

Risk assessment analysis

Explain how to obtain information, documentation, and resources for the audit.

Analyze how each of the seven domains aligns within your chosen organization.

Align the appropriate goals and objectives from the audit plan to each domain and provide a rationale for your alignment.

Develop a plan that:

Examines the existence of relevant and appropriate security policies and procedures.

Verifies the existence of controls supporting the policies.

Verifies the effective implementation and ongoing monitoring of the controls.

Identify the critical security control points that must be verified throughout the IT infrastructure, and develop a plan that includes adequate controls to meet high-level defined control objectives within this organization.

Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment.

Describe the parameters required to conduct and report on IT infrastructure audit for organizational compliance.

Describe the components and basic requirements for creating an audit plan to support business and system considerations

Develop IT compliance audit plans

Use technology and information resources to research issues in security strategy and policy formation.

Write clearly and concisely about topics related to information technology audit and control using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.